I have noticed an interesting twist in the war between those like me who want to play JUST the main rule book and my codex.. and those who want to play everything there is to play to so called "forge a narrative".
Don't you love marketing?
The twist is this: they are reversing gears and actually issuing what we would have called a supplement before as a CODEX! So for those like me who said "Hey, it aint in a codex or Iyanden/Farsight/Black Legion type codex supplement I'm not playing it" GW intelligently responded by calling the Imperial Knights CODEX: Imperial Knights.
Didn't see that coming. But I should have. I will accept games against it now since it is a Codex, but the fact that it has a D weapon and that they actually broke the invisible line that always existed between (for example) the 4E rulebook and the trial assault rules of Chapter Approved (remember how fun those were?) is now fact. Now the line is gone forever and with it also the veil between D weapons and the normal 40K games. And with that broken, the justification of other things is provided.
Remember that moment right before you decided to dance with the devil for the first time? Placed your first bet, drank your first draught? Weren't sure if you should, knew things would never be the same afterwards? Yeah, well. Here we are.
I'm curious to hear what people think about this. Because Codex: Fill in the Blanks is coming and they will be different moving forward. Mark my words, the Imperial Guard codex may well contain Void Shielded fortifications as core (and don't fortifications just make sense in an IG narrative?). Might even...yes...see the iconic Baneblade in there so GW can make its point.
Thoughts?
